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Companies and personnel from all over the Caribbean are invited to gather and exhibit in Montego Bay Jamaica over the two days in October 2011 during the Caribiztech 2011.

The conference/expo has already become know in the Caribbean as the premier regional conference on television, cable and satellite, broadband, wireless, publishing, radio, magazines, news and print media, advertising and marketing. For 2011 we will be expanding this to include products and services catering to SME business startups and growth.

These companies will be expected to exhibit and showcase to those in attendance the very latest offerings in SME business technology products and services, and related supporting products and services showing how they can take advantage of them. They will show how the impacts of new technologies have wrought consumer behavior changes.

Why Exhibit

The 2011 Caribiztech is positioned as the Caribbean’s LARGEST SME event and the industry’s first and ONLY industry-wide event for all new SME in the Caribbean.

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The Platinum level sponsorship investment and participation will be based on the sponsor’s desired level of integration into The 2010 Caribbean New Media Conference & Expo promotional components, as well as on-site activities to be developed jointly between the sponsor and the event. Sponsorship benefits can be customized to help sponsor achieve their specific goals.

Gold Sponsor – Category Exclusive (Call for Pricing)

*LIMIT: 5 COMPANIES*

Gold level sponsorship participation will be based on the sponsor’s desired level of integration into The 2010 Caribbean New Media Conference & Expo promotional components, as well as on-site activities to be developed jointly between the sponsor and the event. Sponsorship benefits can be customized to help sponsor achieve their specific goals.

Silver Sponsor

*LIMIT: 10 COMPANIES*

Pre-show benefits include your company logo and Silver sponsorship status:

On-site benefits include your choice of available booth location up to 200 square feet (sponsor responsible for all decorator costs) as well as your company logo and Bronze sponsorship status:

Displayed on the inside cover of the conference program/exhibitor directory

Other sponsorship Opportunities

Keynote Presentation – Exclusive

Sponsor one of our high-profile Keynotes for brand exposure that touches every attendee at The 2010 Caribbean New Media Conference & Expo. Ignite interest and develop mindshare in executives and entrepreneurs, digital content developers, technology media professionals and everyone in between.

Pre-event and on-site benefits include:

Prominent signage in Keynote room

Recognition of your sponsorship from the podium before the Keynote and at the conclusion of the Keynote Recognition of your sponsorship on website and in conference program/exhibitor directory

Seminar Refreshment Sponsor – Exclusive

The 2010 Caribbean New Media Conference & Expo offers an extensive seminar program for attendees looking to improve the quality and functionality of their online content, blogs, podcasts and videos; increase their readership; and increase the revenue generated. These are long days and the way to any buyer’s heart is through their stomach.

Courtesy of your company, attendees will be treated each day to coffee, juice, bagels, muffins and pastries for breakfast, and afternoon cookies, coffee, juice and other snacks.

On-site benefits include:

Prominent signages at conference break area

Recognition at start of each conference session

Recognized in conference program/exhibitor directory where conference breaks are mentioned

On-Site Banners – Call for Pricing

There are numerous high-profile, high visibility banner locations available

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Sponsorships are the key to extending the life of your exhibit and presence beyond the two days in the exhibit hall. As an exhibitor in The 2010 Caribbean New Media Conference & Expo, we want to work with you to provide you with the best, most effective opportunities for optimizing your time while staying within your budget. Targeted sponsorships – like those offered The 2010 Caribbean New Media Conference & Expo – are the most cost-efficient method for completing your tradeshow marketing plan.

The 2010 Caribbean New Media Conference & Expo offers exhibiting companies opportunities in multiple mediums so you can reach our qualified attendees in more way than one: IN PRINT, ONLINE and IN PERSON.

CONTENT CREATION:

ü Discover the latest audio and video production tools, tips, and techniques

DISTRIBUTION:

ü Learn how to reach a larger audience and build a dynamic, engaged community around your content using:

ü Social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn

ü Audio and video sharing sites like iTunes and YouTube

ü Social bookmarking sites

ü Improved keywords and SEO

ü Search marketing

ü Widgets

ü Syndication

ü Networks

MONETIZATION:

ü Learn all the tools, techniques and strategies to monetize your content with:

ü Direct advertising

ü Ad networks

ü Contextual ads

ü Affiliate programs

ü Sponsorship

ü Paid content

ü Syndication

ü Much more

NETWORK:

There is only one event where you can meet, learn and collaborate with thousands of new media content creators who are just as passionate as you. You’ll also get the chance to network with potential sponsors, from small business owners to major company execs, who are looking to meet with content creators like.

Social Media and Your Business Session:

Social Media and Your Business Sessionis an exclusive by invitation event that teaches and introduces senior company executives how to use social media to gain exposure and engage with quality customers. Whether they are a small business looking to develop a social media plan, or a corporate marketer needing tips for taking your social media strategies to a new level, this session is for you. Learn to create a social media plan, build loyal communities, supercharge your SEO efforts, engage customers in conversation, and much more.

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SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES

The 2011 Caribbean SME Business Technology Exposition and Media Conference will be offering and giving recommended speakers an opportunity to share their knowledge and experience with a growing audience of bloggers, podcasters, internet radio and TV broadcasters and other new media content creators, influencers, publishers, marketers, journalists, innovators, entrepreneurs and corporate executives. If you’re interested in speaking at the 2011 event, please send name, contact information, professional bio, proposed presentation subject/theme – be as descriptive as possible. Topic is to be Neutral and Objective, terms and conditions to Chairman Speakers and Presentation Committee amkcommunications@gmail.com.

All submission must be received by June 30th 2011 for consideration. An extension in this date can be made by the Chairman Speakers and Presentation Committee.

If approved and accepted you will be required to agree to The 2011 Caribbean SME Business Technology Exposition and Media Conference Speaker Guidelines.

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OMG! The Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke extradition saga and the ensuing anarchy unleashed across parts of the island have done more than put people on edge; it has also got them tweeting, texting, facebook-ing and BlackBerry messaging like nobody’s business.

“Oh no! What’s happening in Jamaica? This place is looking more like Iraq than my island paradise!” wrote one confessed Facebook addict in Kingston, in a post made on Wednesday.

Helen Shirley, a 36-year-old business owner from St Andrew said she gets most of her updates on the situation in Kingston from Facebook and messages from friends on her BlackBerry.

“When I get up in the mornings there are already dozens of messages on my BlackBerry. That’s how my friends and I keep in touch in this hard time. We send messages to each other to find out if each other are okay. Sometimes we get information about what’s happening on Facebook and on BlackBerry before I even hear it on the news,” she said.

A service called On the Ground News was recently launched on Facebook and already has more than 5,000 members. The aim of the service is for Facebook-ers across the island to share their thoughts on the extradition affair and for those close to the action to tell what they are witnessing.

And as the saga drags on, the word continues to spread across the Internet.

Christopher Coke, an accused Jamaican don who, it has been reported, hates the limelight, is now a bona fide Internet celebrity. A Google search for ‘Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke’ on Wednesday produced 2,530,000 results, many from International media houses like The New York Times and The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, a similar search for ‘Bruce Golding’ produced 274,000 results.

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Aldo Smith (left), president and chief executive officer of AMK Communications Ltd., listens to Drs.. Marjan de Bruin, director of the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC), prior to signing a sponsorship agreement at the press launch of the Caribbean Media Conference and Expo and the Caribbean Peer Awards, held at the Hilton Kingston hotel in New Kingston on Thursday. – Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer

The US$3 million (J$195 million) expansion beginning next semester at the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) is expected to assist the unit in keeping pace with the new developments in journalism, according to Director, Drs.. Marjan de Bruin.

Speaking at the press launch for next week’s Caribbean Media Conference and Exposition and Caribbean Peer Awards at the Hilton Kingston hotel in New Kingston Thursday, Drs.. de Bruin said CARIMAC would phase in two planned masters and three undergraduate degrees over the next five years.

Online learning

The institution will also establish a distance-learning programme.

CARIMAC will start a new UNESCO-funded course in online journalism for practitioners beginning in May.

“Graduates in the English speaking countries now have this increased market thanks to the Internet and also, within the diaspora, there is this hunger for news from home,” explained Drs.. de Bruin of the potential for online journalism.

She acknowledged that the current convergence of media platforms online – including blogs, slide shows, video, radio, podcasts and so-called ‘citizen journalism’ -was a new phenomenon and just starting in Jamaica.

Right persons

She noted recent mergers such as The Gleaner Power 106 news, which has seen reporters simultaneously producing print and radio reports.

“The challenge is to find the right persons … but I can’t teach … we have to get people with sufficient experience to get this further and stay close to what is happening in the newsrooms,” she explained.

She said that Steve Ross, editor of BroadbandMagazine and a former lecturer at the prestigious Colombia Journalism School, whom she described as a ‘friend of CARIMAC’, had already pledged his involvement in the online course.

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